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Two Masters, Two Generations, and One Vision for Modern Chinese Painting : Paintings by Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) and Lui Shou-kwan (1919-1975) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford

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Date:

7 Dec 2013 - 15 May 2014

Venue:

Gallery I (West-wing), Art Museum

Enquiries:

Tel: (852) 39437416

Synopsis of Lecture:

Under the auspice to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the university’s Art Museum joins forces with the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, to organize an exhibition on two well-known Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Drawing exclusively from the university collections, this exhibition features 50 masterpieces of Gao Jianfu (1879-1951) and Lui Shoukun (1919-1975) to demonstrate two ways to modernize Chinese painting in the twentieth century. Gao’s incorporation of western painting techniques and Lui’s appropriation of Abstract Expressionism represent two approaches endorsed by two generations of Chinese ink painters working actively from the early to mid-twentieth century. A scholarly catalogue investigates how the two universities became important repositories of Gao and Lui’s works, and sheds new light on these celebrated artists.

Remarks:

Museum Hours:
Mondays to Saturdays: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sundays and Public Holidays: 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Thursdays: Closed (Except Public Holidays) 
Closed on New Year Holidays, 
Lunar New Year Holidays, 
Easter Holidays and Christmas Holidays